A Ho Chi Minh City court on Friday sentenced a man to 11 years imprisonment for drunkenly driving and crashing into a car, killing four members of a family last year.

At around 10:40 p.m. on December 10, 2011, Nguyen Vu Thong, 31, drove a Toyota Fortuner drunkenly along Nguyen Huu Canh Street in District 1.

Thong drove fast and lost control of the vehicle. He crashed into a street barrier and encroached into a lane of traffic traveling in the opposite direction, leading to a head-on collision with a Hyundai sedan.

Another Toyota Fortuner, driven by a man named Dang Le Minh, traveling on the road could not avoid the first Toyota Fortuner and crashed into it.